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The cause and prevention of yellow fever at New Orleans and other cities in America.

The cause and prevention of yellow fever at New Orleans and other cities in America.

NOTICES OF THE REPORT OF THE SANITARY COMMISSION.
The following message from his Honor, the Mayor was read, and, on motion, it was referred to the Committee on Health.
Matoralitt op New Orleans, ) City Hall, December 12, 1854. \
To the President and Members of the Common Council:
Gentlemen:—I herewith present the report of the Sanitary Commis¬ sion appointed by the City council, to investigate the origin and mode of transmission of the great epidemic fever of last year, together with all causes afiecting the salubrity of the city.
It is with feelings of just pride that I call your attention to this volu- luminous record of the labors of the Commission, which does nearly as much honor to the city's liberality as to the gentlemen composing it, being the first of its kind in this country.
No subject affecting these important relations has been left unex¬ amined. These researches have e.'itended back to the first origin of the great enemy of our prosperity (yellow fever) among us, and each year of its progress and causation traced to the present time, embracing, it is believed, nearly every record of value. No less minute have been the details of remedies to meet the conditions pointed out; and it is most gra¬ tifying to me to say to you that, although our condition has subjected us to calamitous visitations of disease, it is the unanimous opinion of the scientific and intelligent gentlemen composing that Commission, that it is entirely removable, and that as bountiful a store of health can be enjoyed here as in any large city of our Union, if the proper steps are taken to insure it. Tliese are specially pointed out. The project of a Health Department is given as the organ to carry out these views, and to this subject I particularly invite your earliest attention. No large city is without a Board of Health of some kind ; no city suifers so much for the want of one as this. We have had occasional boards, without much power, and but of very transient duration, for some thirty years back. It is full time something permanent was organized, for its im¬ portant bearing upon our sanitary condition, and to remove the reproach of carelessness and recklessness to which we have been so long subject in relation to health and life.
There is another reason for immediate action, which a cursory exam¬ ination of this valuable work will suggest to you. Many of our public works of the greatest moment to us can only be carried on with safety to the public health during the cool months, which are already fast passing away.
And again, the subject of quarantine, so deeply interesting to the public, I am pleased to find this Commission reporting upon with entire

NOTICES OF THE REPORT OF THE SANITARY COMMISSION.
The following message from his Honor, the Mayor was read, and, on motion, it was referred to the Committee on Health.
Matoralitt op New Orleans, ) City Hall, December 12, 1854. \
To the President and Members of the Common Council:
Gentlemen:—I herewith present the report of the Sanitary Commis¬ sion appointed by the City council, to investigate the origin and mode of transmission of the great epidemic fever of last year, together with all causes afiecting the salubrity of the city.
It is with feelings of just pride that I call your attention to this volu- luminous record of the labors of the Commission, which does nearly as much honor to the city's liberality as to the gentlemen composing it, being the first of its kind in this country.
No subject affecting these important relations has been left unex¬ amined. These researches have e.'itended back to the first origin of the great enemy of our prosperity (yellow fever) among us, and each year of its progress and causation traced to the present time, embracing, it is believed, nearly every record of value. No less minute have been the details of remedies to meet the conditions pointed out; and it is most gra¬ tifying to me to say to you that, although our condition has subjected us to calamitous visitations of disease, it is the unanimous opinion of the scientific and intelligent gentlemen composing that Commission, that it is entirely removable, and that as bountiful a store of health can be enjoyed here as in any large city of our Union, if the proper steps are taken to insure it. Tliese are specially pointed out. The project of a Health Department is given as the organ to carry out these views, and to this subject I particularly invite your earliest attention. No large city is without a Board of Health of some kind ; no city suifers so much for the want of one as this. We have had occasional boards, without much power, and but of very transient duration, for some thirty years back. It is full time something permanent was organized, for its im¬ portant bearing upon our sanitary condition, and to remove the reproach of carelessness and recklessness to which we have been so long subject in relation to health and life.
There is another reason for immediate action, which a cursory exam¬ ination of this valuable work will suggest to you. Many of our public works of the greatest moment to us can only be carried on with safety to the public health during the cool months, which are already fast passing away.
And again, the subject of quarantine, so deeply interesting to the public, I am pleased to find this Commission reporting upon with entire